Young Castro : the making of a revolutionary / Jonathan M. Hansen.

"An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world. Castro got his toughness from a father who survived Spain's nasty class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful ind...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Marshall), 1962- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Castro, Fidel, > 1926-2016.
Revolutionaries > Cuba > Biography.
Heads of state > Cuba > Biography.
Cuba > History > 1933-1959.
Cuba > History > Revolution, 1959.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.
Heads of state.
Cuba.
1933-1959
History.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xx, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Like father
  • Mornings on horseback
  • School days
  • Quixotic (in the finest sense)
  • Salad days
  • We finally have a leader
  • God and the devil
  • The great books
  • True love
  • Exile
  • To wake the nation
  • Keeping order in the hemisphere
  • Plan Fin-de-Fidel
  • Fin-de-Fulgencio.